A post to the GameSpy
Forums by GameSpy chairman Mark Surfas offers their official response to the
report from earlier today of security issues and their response (story).
The post outlines their side of how contact with the researcher unfolded,
saying: "He was doing more than reporting bugs; he was publishing game
pirating techniques. He published how to attack our network. This is not the way
ethical security researchers operate." Here's a bit more: "When we
were first contacted, this person was associated with a small software security
company. They asked if GameSpy wanted to pay a 'consulting fee' to fix the
hacks. However, these were not bugs; it was information about how our products
work. When we brought this to the software security company's attention, they
disavowed their relationship with that person and removed him from their
servers."